Communicative tool

Communicative tools are systems that allow easy communication between teachers and students or between the students outside the physical barrier classroom. It includes the e-mail, electronic bulletin boards, chat, teleconference and electronic whiteboard.  With the use of those multimedia, the learning becomes active, interactive, collaborative and satisfying.

Now, let us look at two different types of communicative tools; synchronous communicative tools and asynchronous communicative tools. Synchronous communicative tools such as chat or video conference enables real-time communication. Whereas asynchronous communicative tools such as e-mail and electronic whiteboard do not require the people to log on in the internet at the same time.

Until now i have been mostly using the synchronous communicative tools such as we-chat, WhatsApp, and video conferencing. I found it using those tools bring positive impact on me particularly the keeping the task up to date. On other side, it gives multiple threads of discussion that makes difficult to follow. Moreover, i lose focus in discussion because of many side discussions in either we-chat or VLE.

lastly, I will share recent task on blogging which is under the asynchronous communicative tool. A blog is an online journal or informational website displaying the information. Or it is a platform where writers share their views on an individual subject. Personally, it encourages the use of internet and power of controlling our own learning.

ICT as informative tool

We can use ICT in the classroom as informative tool. It is an application that provides large amounts of information in various formats such as text, graphic, sound and video. According to Chen and Hsu (1999) define informative tool as a passive repository of information. It is considered to be most significance ICT tools in e-learning environment since it provides a vast information. Personally, i believe that internet as a virtual textbook, reference library and virtual tutor.

Although i used those tools during my teaching practice, i never knew those kinds of tool was informative tool. Before i began my class, i provide them the text to connect with the very topic. And after the activity i used to give them the text to add the information and rectify their task. It is interesting that they try to understand the text and put in their own understanding. Even i got a comment that they understand better through video.

Even when i was back in college, i used to straight away browse the google to find the information. It was impressive to get vast information than in the textbook. Sometimes, i used to share the information in we-chat, whats-app, messenger and email. If i was still confused, then only the way was to watch the tutorial video.  Recently, i had done the task on "Should women in Bhutan play kuru" in power-point show. 

I greatly found myself how to integrate ideas in the classroom. It helps me in developing the searching skills from the google and enhance the critical thinking. Moreover i learnt to evaluate resources. Lastly, i found myself learning was quite well with the informative tools.